Dapper is LESS stable than Breezy.

Harold Johnson harold.johnson at gmail.com
Sun Jun 11 04:05:37 UTC 2006


That's how it seems to go with all the upgrades; some things work better,
other things seem to "break" -- though both of these depend on your
perspective, in many cases.  For example, networking is not automatically
set up by Dapper on my PowerBook G3 anymore, whereas it worked right after
installation with Breezy.  There's a reason for this, I'm sure -- though I'm
not aware of what it is now -- and for some folks, this may be a good
thing.  For me, it makes it a hassle for me to install Dapper.  Still, I'm
trying...

Harold J. Johnson
http://somethingthathappened.com

On 6/10/06, Robert Aldridge <bamarob55 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just upgraded my laptop from Breezy to Dapper a couple of days ago.  I
> haven't seen any stability issues yet (knock on wood :-)).  Dapper is the
> first distro I've tried that I can use my USB scanner with.  Others have
> recognized it, but it never worked.  Also, hibernate works as expected for
> the first time.  Still haven't tried suspend.  I've never been able to get X
> to come back properly after a suspend.  It'll be interesting to see if
> suspend works now.  Firefox seems to render pages faster now and the fonts
> look better.
>
> I'm sorry that others aren't having good luck with Dapper, but it's
> working great for me.
>
> Robert
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